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2 Responses to “The Old-Time Swastikas of SoMA – What You Can See at Fifth and Mission by the Old Mint”

if it was put up in 1874 then it was well before the Nazis came to power or the swastika had the negative connotations. the upright one is actually a symbol of good luck, which is most likely why it was put there in the first place. it still is a symbol of good luck, it’s just that hitler, in his quest to be the biggest asshole the world has ever seen, took something good and injected it with bad…